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Discipline

Mar. 7, 2001

Interest Baggage

An attorney who was not involved in representing his former firm's client is not automatically disqualified when, with a new firm, he subsequently represents a party adverse to that client.

        By Alec H. Boyd
        
        It is firmly established in California that where an attorney is disqualified from a representation because he possesses confidential information of a former client, that disqualification is extended to the attorney's entire firm, unless an effective ethical screen has been established. Flatt v. ...

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